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- From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
- Subject: Re: Connecting multiple strobe lights
- Message-ID: <alwrq3l@SantaFe.edu>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 19:52:55 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- References: <C0Bo01.Gus@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C0Bo01.Gus@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek) writes:
- >
- > I have these three strobe lights and I want to make them flash
- >synchronously, with minimum interconnection. Here is the schematic -
- >I may have interpreted wrongly so feel free to tell me if something doesn't
- >make sense:
- >
-
- Commercial disco strobes do not work like this, if you have a chain of say
- 200 strobe tubes around a dance hall they have to be easily triggered.
- If you want to maintain compatability with the industry you should allow for
- a cannon XLR connector on the back of your strobe, two - one for in and
- one for out The strobe should be configured to flash on every single
- positive going edge recieved between pins 1 &2 on the XLR, max voltage is
- about 5-10 V, but not fussy. So you would need a circuit that discharges the
- tube on every 5V spike received.
-
- Advantage of doing it this way is that you maintain compatibility with
- strobe controllers/chasers that are used in the industry.
-
- Andy
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